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Israel and Russia has a history of swapping spit. Remember Georgia and the drones?

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When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

Exclusive: John McCain Slips Across Border Into Syria, Meets With Rebels:

"Sen. John McCain Monday became the highest-ranking U.S. official to enter Syria
since the bloody civil war there began more than two years ago, The Daily Beast
has learned.

McCain, one of the fiercest critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy, made
the unannounced visit across the Turkey-Syria border with Gen. Salem Idris, the
leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army. He stayed in the
country for several hours before returning to Turkey. Both in Syria and Turkey,
McCain and Idris met with assembled leaders of Free Syrian Army units that
traveled from around the country to see the U.S. senator. Inside those meetings,
rebel leaders called on the United States to step up its support to the Syrian
armed opposition and provide them with heavy weapons, a no-fly zone, and
airstrikes on the Syrian regime and the forces of Hezbollah, which is increasingly
active in Syria."

Exclusive: John McCain Slips Across Border Into Syria, Meets With Rebels:

"Sen. John McCain Monday became the highest-ranking U.S. official to enter Syria
since the bloody civil war there began more than two years ago, The Daily Beast
has learned.

McCain, one of the fiercest critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy, made
the unannounced visit across the Turkey-Syria border with Gen. Salem Idris, the
leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army. He stayed in the
country for several hours before returning to Turkey. Both in Syria and Turkey,
McCain and Idris met with assembled leaders of Free Syrian Army units that
traveled from around the country to see the U.S. senator. Inside those meetings,
rebel leaders called on the United States to step up its support to the Syrian
armed opposition and provide them with heavy weapons, a no-fly zone, and
airstrikes on the Syrian regime and the forces of Hezbollah, which is increasingly
active in Syria."

"Heavy fighting raged around the strategic Syrian border town of Qusair and the
capital Damascus on Monday and further reports surfaced of chemical weapons
attacks by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on rebel areas."

"Israel quickly issued a thinly veiled warning that it would bomb the Russian S-300
missiles if they were sent to Syria, as such a move would bring the advanced
guided missiles within range of civilian and military planes over Israel. Israel has
conducted three sets of air strikes on Syria this year, aimed at preventing missiles
being brought close to its border by the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah."

The Russians probably won't sell such advanced hardware to a place where its technology can be easily pilfered by undercover NATO agents.

Even if they did, they would sell S300s with special command codes that does not address to the rest of their arsenal; which then they would sell the codes to the Israelis for extra money, knowing that they would leak them to the Americans and cause the latter to be more complacent.

Which then they can capture the technology when a F-35 or B2 is shot down with that.

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When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

Syria's foreign minister laid out a hard line Wednesday, saying Bashar Assad will remain president at least until elections in 2014 and might seek another term, conditions that will make it difficult for the opposition to agree to U.N.-sponsored talks on ending the civil war.

Given the range of the beast, the S-300 is mainly defensive but it could have a limited use on a offensive role.

This is the Middle East we are talking about, neighbors so packed to each other a high-grade Chinese Firecracker could be used in a offensive role. But does that give you the right to blow up other country' defenses before aggression? Israel can't even claim these fixed launchers will end up in Hezbollah.

"History may not quite repeat itself, but the war in Syria — invariably, “the Syrian
Civil War” — is eerily similar to the “Spanish Civil War” in the mid-1930s. The latter
started as an internal conflict, as did Syria, and then sucked in the major powers,
including Great Britain, France, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s Soviet
Union. The Syrian war features active intervention from Russia and Iran, Saudi
Arabia, the Emirates, and Qatar, and increasingly busy action is en route from Great
Britain, France, and the United States."

When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

"There are reasonable grounds to believe that limited quantities of toxic chemicals were used. It has not been possible, on the evidence available, to determine the precise chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrator," Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs the U.N. commission of inquiry, told a news conference in Geneva.

"The witnesses that we have interviewed include victims, refugees who fled some areas, and medical staff," Pinheiro said, declining to be more specific for reasons of confidentiality